Quiz Ga Ga!

(c) Wikipedia

The answer to the last question is: Farrokh Bulsara aka Freddie Mercury of Queen Fame (Freddie or rather, Queen got into Guinness records for being the most successful album act in UK History - 150+ million copies sold! Courtesy Time - one of the November '06 issues listing the 60 Asian heroes. Funny, that Freddie was classified as Asian/Indian/Parsi etc in that article; but he was trying to enmask his origins through his work all his life!)

Now for the stats of one of the delightful activities that I undertook during this world cup - The "Can-You-Do-It-Without-Googling Trivia".

Well, people googled, wikipedia-ed, phoned friends, searched books, used computer software, played scrabble, drew pictures, chased butts (er, cigarrette ones, I mean), used four-letter words... what they did not do I believe was not think about cricket!

In all there were 36 questions.

All except two were answered at least by one person. The two that escaped the net were ironically my favourites: Clock hands & REM Connection

The one that was most answered was : Carnatic Ragas (8 got it right)

A total of 20 people participated in the trivia pursuit over the last month and a half and on an average there were four right answers for each question. In all there were more than 150 responses to the questions! Pretty impressive, folks :-)

Now for the WINNERS:


{Drum Rolls Please}



5. Muthiah (with 11 correct answers)
4: Sivasubs (13)
3: Ganesh TCS (13)
[He contributed the Jaguar question & so...]
2: Guru (23)
1. Anand Re (27)

Congratulations to...
Anand - for faithfully hedging his guesses against trivia;
Guru for admitting to cheating when he does so rarely;
Ganesh TCS for never answering the question direct - a reverse question each time (read as more quizzing!);
Sivasubs for thowing in his experiences amongst which was the WW II & association with Syonan Simbun;
Muthiah for the speed with which he could google and
to all of you.

Special mention about Madhuri for being the only lady to have participated in the quiz. She got the scrabble right! [She wanted some question on cooking; but I know only how to eat :-)]

Also, thanks to Ganesh TCS, Rohit and Maanasa for contributing questions to this meaningless-fact-finding-mission!

How did others fare?

Amar, Bhargav, Madhuri, Praveen, SriniK, SVK - 1 each
Peruri, Polap, Sharath - 2 each
Krish, Laks, Malur, Rambo - 3 each
Aditya K, Rohit - 6 each

Have to say, that I had a great time in exercising the limited supply of grey cells everyday.

Oh, by the way, if I have not given credit to your correct answer anywhere, it is entirely my fault. But the standings stay!

Prizes are being bought from the shop.
Will reach you in good time.
So long, And Thanks for All the Fish!!!
(Could not help it! The last line is the title of the fourth book of the Hitchhiker trilogy ;-)